We performed a comparison between Dataloader.io and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."he product’s most valuable feature is ease of access."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the flow designer functionally. It is the best out of any ETL tool. Additionally, the solution is reliable and trustable in dealing with large data sources anytime. When we're using billions of data transactions, it's smooth."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"We need help with large data migrations. It only works well for a few thousand records or less than a million records."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"The licensing is difficult."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
Dataloader.io is ranked 39th in Data Integration with 1 review while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Dataloader.io is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dataloader.io writes "Provides an ease of access and an automated mapping feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". Dataloader.io is most compared with BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS, Mule Anypoint Platform and DBamp, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue.
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